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I share two boxes, one Windows and one
Linux, with one KVM. Both work when I start up the desktop, in this
case GNOME/Enlightenment. When I switch from the Mandrake desktop
to the other system, then back again, I lose mouse support
entirely. I've checked cables, restarted the gpm dæmon and
pressed Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to leave the desktop. When I restart the
desktop, the mouse is detected again, but only for as long as I
don't switch to Windows and then back again.

With the Windows side, I can switch to Linux and back with no
problem, and every time I start the desktop on Linux it works—but
only until I switch the screen away and back again. Any ideas as to
what this needs to fix? Linux/Mandrake 7.1 is running on a Dell P90
(old) with PS/2 mouse, gpm runs with gpm -t
ps/2. Could some other dæmon I'm not running
because of security be what's causing the problem? I have amd, atd,
innd, lpd and portmap disabled.

This is most likely not a problem with the Linux setup. PS/2
mice have a configuration that is initialized during startup. A KVM
is responsible for restoring this configuration on switch back to a
machine; Linux is totally unaware of the switch.

I have networked Linux machines on my home network consisting
of two desktop machines and a laptop. I would like to get my mail
on any machine but can do so only on the older desktop machine. I
have set up the Netscape preferences identically on all machines.
On the newer machine and the laptop I get the message “Netscape
unable to locate the server mail”, when I try to retrieve mail. The
server “mail” is the name given by my ISP (Cox@home), which works
perfectly fine on the older machine. On the other machines, when I
try to get new messages, Netscape always asks for my password even
though in the preferences I have explicitly selected the “remember
password” button, so I'm wondering if NS is reading the wrong
preferences file.

Sounds like your one working machine has the Fully Qualified
Domain Name (FQDN) for your ISP and the others do not. Try adding
the rest of the hostname to the configuration for Netscape (i.e.,
mail.example.com, if example.com is your domain name). Alternately,
you could update your /etc/resolv.conf “search” configuration line
and add the correct domain name so that you don't have to type in
all the time.

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